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Canada Freezes $43M in Suspicious Tesla Rebates. Tesla’s Claim of 1.5 Sales Per Minute Prompts Government to “Fully Examine Each Claim Individually.” (fuelarc.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looks like Tesla’s reliance on government subsidies has finally hit a wall in Canada.

After Tesla requested reimbursement for an unprecedented 8,669 Canadian EV rebates in just three days, the Canadian government froze Tesla’s rebate payments and paused all future eligibility for federal rebates while tariffs are in place.

Read the full details and the fallout here.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So maybe they found a way to identify customers that didn't, and submitted the paperwork in order to get the rebate for themselves?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I suppose they sent the requests so they could sell the cars cheaper than the competitors when the rebate is cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For my money, that's the most probable reasoning for why Tesla tried this.

Falls under the "cool motive, still fraud" umbrella, but it makes the most sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's definitely some kind of fraud, although they might have found a loophole that wasn't in the spirit of the law but still legal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Well now they are not getting the money. So their loophole did not work so well.